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  <title><![CDATA[The Outsider]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Colin Wilson]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 03 00:00:00 -0800 1990</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Colin Wilson explains why men of &quot;genius&quot; suffer angst. As such there are interesting portraits of Dostoyevsky, T.E Lawrence, Van Gogh, etc, etc.]]></body>
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    <review id="24872285">
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 1977</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[ Wilson's first book, The Outsider, prefiguring much of his later serious work, was a best-seller, making him a celebrity in his twenties, a status quickly lost and never regained.  It is not, in my opinion, one of his best books, but then none of his books are really very good by any ordinary stand...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24872285">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_updated>Fri May 29 02:10:45 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I identify and resonate with all of the aspects Wilson discusses in this book for the most part.  This is probably the best book I have ever read besides Hesse's <u>Steppenwolf</u>.<br/><br/>To put it in a nutshell: If you feel like you're alienated from most of humanity and that nobody speaks &quot;your...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55314104">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book twice before I was 20 years old, and I think that might be the best time to read it.  It turned me on to a lot of other writers and historical figures I might never have sought out on my own, and the experience he talks about throughout the book is something that probably freaks out...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51128335">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="11417761">
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    <name><![CDATA[Greg]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>The Outsider</em> is great.  Much of the book are things that any serious reader will say the very not so serious comment of 'duh' to, and there is the sense of 'preaching to the converted' (although there is no preaching here), but that's ok with me since a good portion of my life has been being submers...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11417761">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19424407">
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 17 00:00:00 -0700 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Quite often there are books that we read when young that make a great impression onus, that seem to be works of genius, and then we reread them years later and we’re bitterly disappointed.  This was my experience with Colin Wilson’s <em>The Outsider</em>.  The book was a sensation when first published ba...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19424407">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="78045987">
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the books that I am embarrassed to admit to reading and liking way too much at the time I read it. For what it is, it isn't bad, but the inherent wish fulfillment is apparent in every page; because geniuses are frequently misunderstood loners, the author, who is a misunderstood loner, must be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78045987">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45231353">
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this when I was very young and it made a great impression on me, pointing me to books by Beckett and Camus etc. But I have dipped into sebsequent books by Wilson and found them awful. I don't dare go back and re-read this as I know it would disappoint.]]></body>
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    <review id="16096446">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[As someone who has always felt like they were on the outside looking in, this book has been a comfort. Colin Wilson deftly discusses outsiders in art and literature (Van Gogh, Nietzsche, Poe, Dostoyevsky, Kafka and others) and illustrates what The Outsider has to cope with, what he sees and what he ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16096446">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="14256888">
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Starts out with all guns blazing... a wonderfully energetic and boundlessly confident romp through the existential hero's domain. Wilson takes on a big-balled thematic synthesis of the major works of Dostoevsky, Camus, Sartre, Nietzsche, Tolstoy, T.S. Eliot and others, with a frenetic style reminisc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14256888">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8001392">
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    <name><![CDATA[Antiabecedarian]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sat Oct 20 18:32:20 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Oct 20 18:32:20 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[this is part of a series of books i collected in order to better understand my more perplexing male friends.  wilson is an autodidact, so i relish what he proclaims.  for the life of me, however, I can't remember any of it... and the outsider is yet another book i have not finished.  besides, i am p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8001392">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43188994">
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    <name><![CDATA[Adam]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book and Demian tie for the most amazing Psychological/Existential books I've ever read.  For anyone who has struggled with their ideas of self or motivations of isolation, you might want to take a look at this.  I will read it again and I don't do that often.]]></body>
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    <review id="5828576">
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    <body><![CDATA[i read this book man  years ago and remember viidly how he state that in the summer he would camp out under the stars, the cycle to the then...reading room at the british-museam to continoiue his work... yes great book <br/><br/>althought others i don't think would like to  copy  the actions now.....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5828576">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48883726">
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    <body><![CDATA[A pretty good analysis/overview of historical people suffering from existential issues. Wilson takes issues from several different people's lives and writing and puts it all together to classify those type of people who crop up in history every once in awhile who just don't fit in. It got a little d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48883726">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="53663511">
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  <read_at>Thu May 12 00:00:00 -0700 1988</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A long time ago, but I enjoyed it at the time...]]></body>
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    <review id="17158592">
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 31 00:00:00 -0800 1983</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Part biography, part philosophy, part literary criticism, and part psychology: Wilson's The Outsider is a study of the theme of alienation in the art and thought of the modern era.  In addition to discussing the existentialist thinkers like Nietzsche, Sartre and Camus (and the novelists that are som...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17158592">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9030632">
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is one of the most fascinating books EVER! Colin Wilson is an amazing writer and he tackles one of the strangest and most romantic ideas: that of the outsider. The man or woman who exists outside of society; the artist, scholar, writer, dancer, actor or philosopher who can't ever quite fin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9030632">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of those books that makes you want to read a bunch of other books. Mostly Dostoevsky. It was a romp in the waters of the outsider in literature as seen through the works of DH Lawrence, aforementioned Dostoevsky, Hemingway, Sartre, and others.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A great book with a whole lot of information on other great books and other great Authors...it takes a specific character found in other books (someone who does not fit in with socioty standards, but must ultimatly co-exist within socioty)..an excellent read!!!]]></body>
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